Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS - Manual (Page 72)

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Text basics
You can work with text in a word processing document or in a text frame. In
either case, you use the same techniques, tools, and commands to enter and
format the text.
Creating a word processing document or frame
* Choose Index from the or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from
the list and click Go To Topic.
To Do this Example
Create a blank
word processing
document Choose New from the File
menu, click Word Processing, and
then click OK
Or, click on the Default
button bar. (If you don’t see the
button bar, choose Show Button
Bar from the Window menu.)
Create a text frame
within another type
of document Select the text tool
(choose Show Tools from the
Window
menu if it isn’t
visible). Then, drag the I-beam
pointer diagonally in the
working area of the document
to draw a text frame, and begin
typing.
(In a word processing
document, hold down the
Option key as you draw the
frame.)
In the Help index, * see:
E
frames, creating
E
opening
A word processing document
A text frame in a draw document